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Babaji Initiation

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Chicago, July 11, 1975

Prabhupada: ...I am accepting this dress following the footprints of other

acaryas. This dress was accepted by Rupa Gosvami, not ordinary person. The

six Gosvamis, they accepted. It is called paramahamsa stage, sannyasi's

highest stage. Sannyasi has got four stages: kuticaka, bahudaka,

parivrajakacarya and paramahamsa. Kuticaka means when he takes sannyasa, he

is not accustomed to beg; therefore he makes a small cottage outside the

village, and the foodstuff comes from the home or somebody sends. In this

way, when he is little practiced, then he goes door to door, begs, bahudaka.

Then he is more practiced: parivrajakacarya, he travels all over the world.

And after that, when he is fully mature, he can chant one place Hare Krsna.

He has no more business. So this is the last stage of mature sannyasa. But

because you are thinking that you may not live many years, so you simply sit

down, go to Mayapur. You have no other business. Simply go on chanting Hare

Krsna mantra, and whatever little prasadam available, you take. And the rest

of your life simply engage in chanting. That will be success.

Tamala Krsna: Is he supposed to get a name, Prabhupada?

Prabhupada: Name is the same.

Brahmananda: Audolomi dasa Babaji?

Prabhupada: Ah, Audolomi dasa Babaji. That's all. Hare Krsna. So this is the

first time in our institution: a babaji. So it is not to be imitated. It is

the paramahamsa stage when one is very mature in sannyasa life, for that,

not for ordinary person. Don't request, "Give me sannyasa. Give me babaji."

Don't do that. It is not a fashion. It is a stage of realization. That's

all. (end)

 

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I heard that he was awarded babaji status after being reported as terminally

ill, but that he recovered and thereafter left Krishna consciousness.